Adjustable support for telephones



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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLAUDE C. GOULD, OF BATAVIA, NW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF SEVEN -EIGHTH-S TO 'WALTER- SMlTl-I, OF SAME PLACE, AND PIULTP V. SCRIBNER, OF

ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR TELEPHONES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettera Patent No. 354,469, dated December 14, 1886.

A ppliinlion lileil October 21, 18H6.

rlhis invention relates to an adjustable telephone'snpport, which can be raised and lowm ered to adjust the position ofthe telephone as may be most convenient for the person using it. it is frequently the case thatthe saine tele phone is used by persons oi' greatly dilferent height, iii-which case vthe telephone is incon- 15 venient for very tall and very small persons when adjustei'l l'or the average height.

'lhe object of my invention is to render 'the telephone adjustable in such manner that it can be quiekl y raised and lowered by the per The invention consists ol.' the improvements 'which will be hereinafter i'ully described, and pointed ont in the claims.

lIn the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is g5 a sectional sideelevation of my improved tele phone-support. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in line .'r, iiig. 1, on an enlarged scale.

Lilie letters of reference rei'er to like parts in both iigures.

A reprrsenls thoframe or board, which carries the call-bell mechanism B, thereceving telephone B', the transmitter B2, and the battory-oase l5", all of which parts may be otany ordinary or suitable construction.

U represents a vertical rod, which is rigidly secured at its upper and lower ends to arms or brackets c, by which the rod C is attached to a wall or other support. The telephonefranie A is provided at its upper and lower 4o ends` with rearwardly-extending arms D D',

which embrace the rod Gand guide the frame in its vertical movements 0n Said I'Od. Each of these arms rests snugly against the front side of the rod (l, by means of a bearingpieee,

i5 e, which is arranged in the outer portion of the opening,r formed in each arm.

f is a simil-.ir hearing-piece arranged in the inner portion of the opening of each arm, and bearing against the rear portion of the rod C.

,o The inner bearingpieces, f, are each'provided on their rear sides 'with a shank,f, which en Serial NihrlDO, (No modul.)

each arm D 1). The 'socket g opens toward the rod 0,' and is provided with a spring, h, which bears against the shank 'f, and presses the inner bearing-piece e against the rod C. The bearing-pieces c and f are inserted into the openings of the arms I) D' before the latter are applied to the rod C, andare held in place by flanges on said arms, which overlap the upper and lower sidesof the bearing-pieces, as represented in Fig. l. The tension of the spring h can be regulatedby a setscrew, i, which works in the rear end of the socket g, and bears against a follower, arranged in the sockotbetween the set-screw and the spring. By properly adj ustng the tension of the springs h suilicient friet-ion can be created between the bearing-surfaces of the arms D D and the rod C to support the telephone-frame inany desired position on the rod, and at the saine time afford sufficient freedom of movenient to permit the' telephone-frame to be quickLy and easily raised and lowered on the rod, when desired. By'this means the person using the telephoneis enabled to adjust the same readily to the most convenient position.

j represents a setsorew or pin secured in the `lower arm, 1)', and enteringa vertical groove, k, formed in the lower portion of the rod C, thereby preventing the telephone-frame from turning Von said rod.

I claim as my invention-' l. The combination ,with a telephone-frame, of a support on which said frame can be raised the frame is held on said support by frictional contact while being permitted to be raised and lowered on said support, substantially as set forth.

2. The coinbination,with atelepho'neframe, of a vertical supporting-rod, arms attached to said frame and 4embracing said rod, movable bearing pieces attached to said arms, and springs whereby said bearing-pieees arepressed against the supportingsrod,substantiall y as set forth. Y

frame, of' a vertical snpporting-rod,open arms D D', attached to said frame, outer and inner hearing-pieces, ef, arranged in the openings and lowered, and a yielding bearing whereby.

The combination, with the telephone4 of said arms, and springs h, bearing against' ters a socket, y, formed in the rear portion of stantiaflly as set forth.

A the outer bearing-pieces, f, substantial] y as set forth. v

4. The combination, wibh the telephoneframe,provided withal] arm, D7 having a pro- 5 ject/1011.3',ofaverticalsupporbing-rod,0,passng through said arm and provided with a vertical slothk, in which said projection engages, sub- Wtness my hand this 16th day of October, 1886.

CLAUDE C. GOULD.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 354,469, granted December 14, 1886, upon the application of Claude C. Gould, of Batavia, New York, for au improvement. in Adjiistable Supports ifor Telephones, errors appear requiring the following oorrections, to wir: The name of thc first-mentioned assignee should rend Walton Smith instead of YVzilter Smith, and the interest assigned should remi jive-eighties instead of seven-eights; and that snid Letters Patent should he read with these corrections therein that, *elle stime may conform to the neem-tl of the cese in the Patent Oioe.

Signed, countersgued, and sealed this 21st day of December, A. D. 1886.

[SEAL] D. L. HAWKINS,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Gountersigncd:

R. B. VANGE,

ActingCommssioner of Patents. 

